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HUCK FINN
Play by Sean Aita
Based on Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Creative Team
Director PJ Escobio
Musical Director James E. Bailey
Assistant Director Laura Nikolich
Set Designer Daniel Schult
Lighting Designer Julian Schwikart
Sound Design Maximilian Borschel
Costume Designer Melanie Schöberl
Props Dirk Conrad
Carpenter Damian Ntuk
Characters in the play
Huck Finn (Huckleberry Finn), an adventurous boy who fakes his death
to escape his abusive father and makes a long and frequently interrupted
voyage down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Widow Douglas, Huck's guardian who tries to teach him manners.
Tom Sawyer, Huck's civilized best friend who enjoys extravagant stories
and schemes.
Jim, a runaway slave who joins Huck in his flight down the Mississippi.
Old Finn, Huck's abusive, drunken father who plots to steal his son's
reward money.
Woman, town woman whom Huck visits disguised as a girl.
The King and The Duke, two con artists who stage a production of
mangled Shakespeare plays and take control of Huck and Jim's raft.
Aunt Sally, Tom Sawyer's aunt, sister of Tom Sawyer's mother.

Mark Twain
Huck Finn script
Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) was the sixth
of seven children born to John Clemens, a lawyer, and his wife Jane. When Samuel was
four, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri a town on the Mississippi River. Samuel
loved to watch the riverboats and dreamed of being a riverboat pilot. Many of his
stories were inspired by his adventures in Hannibal.
At 17, Samuel left Hannibal and found print work in St Louis, New York, Philadelphia
and Cincinnati. Then in 1857, he returned to study for two years to become a riverboat
pilot. But 1861 saw the end of Samuel’s river days once the Civil War started.
He moved west to join the Confederate Army, although he left before fighting began.
After working briefly as a miner, he became a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise in
Virginia City, Nevada, and began writing short stories under the name Mark Twain.
Scene 1
FINN: Listen closely friends, because this here is a great story. It's the story of how
a boy called Huckleberry Finn, that's me by the way, ran away from home and rode
a raft down the great Mississippi river with a runaway slave named Jim. Every single
word of this story is true, except for those bits that are lies of course because a story
isn't a story unless you stretch it just a little. So come back in time with me to the start
of my tale when I was living with a lady called the Widow Douglas, that's her over
there. She took me into her home when my father left me, she wanted to civilize me,
that means turn me into a good, decent boy, a pretty hard job for a boy like me, who
ain’t never lived in a house or slept in a bed before.
WIDOW: Huckleberry!
FINN: Yes, ma'am?
Mark’s first popular story – The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
–was published in 1865. It received international acclaim and soon Mark was one of
the most famous American celebrities of his day. He was asked to write his first (and
best-selling) book The Innocents Abroad (1869) about his travels, and other works
followed including Roughing It (1872), The Prince and the Pauper (1882), and Life
on the Mississippi (1883).
In 1870, Mark married 24-year-old Olivia Langdon, the daughter of a rich coal merchant.
They settled in Buffalo, New York, and had three daughters and a son. Their son
sadly died in infancy.
WIDOW: Sit down here beside me.
FINN: Yes, ma'am.
WIDOW: Who were you talking to just then?
FINN: Oh, nobody ma'am. Just myself, I guess.
WIDOW: Well, don't Huckleberry, talking to yourself is a bad habit and don't scrunch
up like that, sit up straight and don't put your feet up there.
FINN: Yes ma'am, I mean, no, Ma'am.
WIDOW: Stop yawning, Huckleberry and don't stretch. It's bad manners.
HUCK FINN
Parenthood led to Mark’s famous ‘river novels’ for children. He read each chapter to
his family as he wrote them. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) tell the adventures of two boys on the
Mississippi River. Huckleberry Finn, in particular, has been called ‘The Great American
Novel’ – a tale of a white boy helping a black man to escape slavery in the southern
US. Mark Twain's "river books" have been banned in places as some characters in
them use offensive, racist language that was common at the time of writing.
Mark’s writing earned him a lot of money, but he lost most of it by investing in risky
ventures. In 1895, he began a world tour giving lectures to pay off his debts, which he
did in 1898. Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted
that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet returned.
FINN: Sorry ma'am.
WIDOW: And stop calling me ma'am. You know you are to call me Widow Douglas.
FINN: Yes ma’am...Widow Douglas.
WIDOW: I don't know what's to become of you, Huckleberry Finn, I really don't.
Why can't you try to behave for once in your life? You know what happens to bad children
when they die, don't you? They go straight down to the deepest pits of hell.
FINN: Well, I wish I was there, I'll bet it's a whole lot more fun than being right here!
WIDOW: Oooh, you wicked boy! You should have your mouth washed out with soap
for saying such a thing like that.
HUCK FINN
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FINN: I'm sorry, but I just want to go somewhere. Anywhere! All I want is a change.
TOM: You're not scared of a little cut are you, you big baby?
WIDOW: You should be happy that the good Lord has given you a roof over your head
and food to eat. Just think about how nice it will be if you are good and go to heaven
when you die.
FINN: What do people do in heaven?
WIDOW: Why, they play harps and sing to each other for ever and ever.
FINN: Do you think my best friend, Tom Sawyer, will go to heaven?
HUCK: Of course not. I just wanna to know what it is I'm signing.
TOM: It says that all the boys who join have to become robbers, wear masks
and rob people,then kill them.
HUCK: Do we have to kill the people, Tom?
TOM: Oh yes, it's best. Most books say it's best to kill them but some you have
to hold to ransom.
WIDOW: No, I do not. I think the devil has got a nice hot fire ready for young Tom
Sawyer.
FINN: That's good.
WIDOW: Why is that?
FINN: I want us to be together. (He sniffs)
WIDOW: Don't sniff, Huckleberry. Use your handkerchief.
FINN: Sorry, Widow, I forgot. (He rakes out a handkerchief, blows his nose but then spoils
everything by wiping it on his sleeve). The Widow was a good woman, she didn't mean
any harm. She nagged a lot but she meant well. Wait a minute, have I told you about
my best friend yet? I haven't? Well my best friend was a boy called ...
HUCK: Ransom? What's that?
TOM: I don't know. But it's what robbers do.
HUCK: But how can we do it if we don't know what it is?
TOM: Stop asking stupid questions.
HUCK: Do we kill the women too?
TOM: Are you crazy? Whoever heard of anybody killing women?
Of course, we don't, we just keep them in our cave until they fall in love with us.
HUCK: Fall in love with us?
TOM: Don't you ever read any books? The women always fall in love with the robbers.
Now, give me your hand.
Scene 2
TOM: Tom Sawyer. Listen Huck, I'm starting a gang of robbers and anybody who
wants to join has to sign this.
HUCK: OK, but you cut yours first.
TOM: (looks at knife) Maybe a knife is a bit too much. Have you got a pin?
HUCK: Here. (They both prick their thumbs with the pin and press them on the paper.)
HUCK: What is it?
TOM: There, that's all done.
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TOM: It's an oath. Anybody who joins a gang of robbers has to sign an oath.
It says so in all the books.
HUCK: Well, give me a pen.
TOM: Don't you know anything, Huck Finn? You can't sign an oath with a pen.
You've to sign it with blood.
HUCK: Blood?
TOM: Here's the knife, just let me cut your thumb.
HUCK: Just a minute, Tom.
HUCK: When do we start robbing and killing?
TOM: Tomorrow.
HUCK: Oh, I promised the widow I'd cut the grass. Can we start on Sunday?
TOM: No, we can't start on Sunday.
HUCK: Why not?
TOM: Because robbing and killing people on Sunday would be wicked.
(Jim, a tall black man wearing dungarees enters and sits on the front of the stage.)
JIM: (sings)
JIM: Huck!
HUCK FINN
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HUCK: Howdy, Jim!
HUCK: Now there's something important you've got to understand. In Missouri, the
state Tom and I were living in when we were kids, black folks could be slaves. That
means you could buy and sell them and treat them anyway you wanted to. A black
man or woman could be set free by their master, but if they were slaves they had no
rights at all. Ain’t that right, Jim?
JIM: That's right, Mr Huck. (sings)
HUCK: What's the matter Jim?
JIM: It's Miss Watson, the Widow's sister. I heard her talking to the Widow and she
said she might sell me to the slave traders. She says I'm worth eight hundred dollars
and she needs money more than she needs me.
HUCK: Eight hundred dollars! That's a lot of money.
JIM: It is. I don't want to be sold, Huck. I don't want to go to New Orleans to work.
HUCK: Well I guess you'll have to.
JIM: But what about my wife and kids? I won't ever see them again.
HUCK: Maybe she won't sell you.
JIM: Yeah, maybe.
HUCK: (to audience) You know that was the first time I ever saw Jim cry, I remember I
was surprised, because at that time I didn't think that black folks had feelings just like
everybody else. Anyway, a couple of months went by and I forgot all about Jim and his
troubles. I was busy at school learning how to read and spell and write a little. I even
learned my 'times tables?’. One time seven time seven is seven, two times seven is
fourteen, three times seven is three… (Huck is pulled around by his father.)
OLD FINN: Don't pretend you haven't got any. I heard how you and Tom Sawyer
found a pileof gold in a cave.
HUCK: It's true, Pap, but I ain’t got the money, Judge Thatcher is looking after it for me.
OLD FINN: Well, you get the money from him and you give it to me.
Now boy, you can read and write, I hear?
HUCK: That's right, Pap.
OLD FINN: You think you're better than me now, don't you, boy?
HUCK: No, Pap.
OLD FINN: Don't lie to me, boy! You think you're better than your own father.
Well I'll show you.
Old Finn removes his belt and begins to beat Huck.
HUCK: Stop it, Pa, please don't. (He is beaten back into a comer where he lies, curled Up)
OLD FINN: (to audience) Ha! What are you all looking at? Huckleberry thought he was
the only one who was going to tell this story. Well he ain’t! I'm here, too. Right, let's
start by having a look at you (he walks through the audience and. stops once or twice to insult
people.) Just as, I thought, you’re all good for nothing. I don't want to talk to idiots.
Get up on your feet, Huckleberry. Stand up like a man! Don't lie on the floor there like
a dog. (Huck gets up) Now, you're coming with me up to my cabin in the woods. We'll
do some fishing and hunting and you will get me the money from Judge Thatcher,
because if you don't ... (he shows Huck his belt again).
Huck and Old Finn exit. Jim enters, he works while he talks.
Scene 4
HUCK FINN
Scene 3
OLD FINN: Well now, look at you. Look how clean and smart you are. A real gentleman.
HUCK: Pap! You've come back.
OLD FINN: That's right, your dear old father. You didn't expect to see me again did you?
HUCK: I thought…
OLD FINN: You thought I was dead, didn't you? Well I'm not, not yet, and I want some
money.
JIM: (to audience) Hey y’all! Poor old Huck had to go with his Pap to a cabin in the
woods, on the other side of the Mississippi river, Widow Douglas was worried sick
about him, but she couldn't do nothing about it. Old Finn was his pap, even if he did
hit him.
Widow Douglas enters.
WIDOW: Who are you talking to, Jim?
JIM: Er, nobody Miss Douglas…
WIDOW: My sister wants to talk to you, Jim. You are to be sold at the Slave auction,
tomorrow.
HUCK: I...
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JIM: Oh no, Miss Douglas.
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WIDOW: I'm afraid so, Jim. I tried to talk her out of it, but she wants the money. I'll
make sure the children are well cared for, don't you worry about that.
JIM: Thank you, Miss Douglas, but...
WIDOW: (exits) I'm sorry, Jim.
JIM: Right that minute I decided to run away. I knew if I was sold down South I would
never be free. If I could get to one of the free states in the North, then one day I could
earn enough, money to buy my whole family. But before I could go, there was some
bad news. Huck Finn was dead. Widow Douglas, Tom Sawyer, and Old Finn enter and
stand as if at a funeral.
OLD FINN: (to Widow) I left him alone while I went hunting and when I came back,
the cabin had been robbed and there was blood all over the floor.
WIDOW: But no body?
OLD FINN: There was a trail of blood leading to the river.
WIDOW: Poor Huckleberry, poor, poor Huckleberry.
OLD FINN: Never mind about that. Now how am I going to get that money?
JIM: Well why didn't you say so? What happened to you?
HUCK: Well, Pap locked me in the cabin nearly every day while he went hunting. I dug a
hole so that I could get out. Then I killed a pig and left the blood all over the floor, ade
a trail to the river and then I jumped onto my raft and came here.
JIM: Raft?
HUCK: That's right. I found a raft. Now what about you, what are you doing here, Jim?
JIM: I...I...run off.
HUCK: Run off?
JIM: I know it's a bad thing to do Huck, but I had to. You won't tell on me or send me
back will you? Please?
HUCK: No. I won't tell.
JIM: Oh, thank you, thank you.
HUCK: What are you gonna to do?
JIM: Well, if I can get to the city of Cairo, Illinois I'll be safe.
HUCK: Cairo? Hmmm. We could be there in a couple of days.
HUCK FINN
Scene 5
JIM: That night when it was dark, I crawled into the bushes behind the house and then
ran down to the river. I held on to a piece of wood and jumped in the water. It was
cold. I wanted to swim over to the Illinois side of the river but the river was powerful
strong, so, I floated until I came to Jackson's island. I had some berries and then I
heard something. Footsteps! There was somebody else on the island with me.
Huck enters.
HUCK: Jim!
JIM: Aaagh! Don’t come near me! Don't come near me! Stay where you are! Please
don't hurtme, I've never done any harm to a ghost, I've always liked dead people.
HUCK: Ghost? I'm not a ghost. Look I'm real. Touch me.
Jim does.
JIM: Huck Finn? You're alive?
HUCK: Of course, I'm alive.
JIM: Are you sure?
JIM: We?
HUCK: Of course. We'll start tomorrow night. (to audience) And we did.
We got onto my raft and set off down the deep, dark river.
JIM: It's funny to think that everybody thinks you're dead, Huck.
HUCK: That's right, Jim. (sings)
They laugh together.
HUCK: We floated down the river for the next two days, hiding the raft and sleeping
when the sun came up and travelling at night. Jim was good company and we told
each other all kinds of stories. But we both knew that if Jim got caught, he would be in
bad trouble. A runaway slave could be hanged.
JIM: Look Huck! What's that?
HUCK: It looks like part of a wooden cabin, floating in the river.
JIM: It must have been washed away by a flood, I'll try to get on it.
Jim climbs onto it.
JIM: Look at this Huck, there's all sorts of things in here. Oh ...
HUCK: I'm sure.
HUCK: What is it?
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JIM: It's…
JIM: I’ll be here.
HUCK: What?
JIM: A body...a dead body.
HUCK: Let me look.
JIM: No! No, Huck. I'm coming back.
HUCK: Jim was very upset at seeing a body. He said it was bad luck. The next night a
thick fog came down over the river and it was hard to see anything. About midnight,
Jim thought he saw some lights that looked like a big town.
HUCK: (to audience) I thought it was a pretty silly idea to dress up as a girl. But we had
to ask where we were, so I walked towards the town and knocked on the door of the
first house I saw.
WOMAN: Come in.
HUCK: Thank you, Ma'am.
WOMAN: Sit down. What is your name, child?
HUCK: Sarah Williams.
JIM: Huck, is that Cairo over there?
HUCK: I can't see. It's too misty.
WOMAN: Here, you can help me with this sewing. (She hands Huck a needle and cotton).
And where do you live, Sarah?
JIM: I can see lights.
HUCK: Hookerville Ma'am just up the river. I'm on my way to Cairo.
HUCK: Let's go and take a look. (They paddle the raft to the shore). You stay on the raft.
I'll try to find someone to ask.
WOMAN: Well, you've gone too far, Cairo is back the other way.
HUCK: Upstream?
JIM: Be careful, Huck.
WOMAN: That's right.
HUCK: I will.
HUCK: Oh, no.
JIM: Just a minute.
WOMAN: Well, never mind. You can stay here for tonight. Are you hungry?
HUCK: What?
HUCK: No, ma'am.
JIM: What if you see someone you know?
HUCK: You're right. What can I do?
WOMAN: My husband will be home soon. He's out with some men from the town
at the moment, hunting for a runaway slave.
JIM: Here. Wear this sheet like a dress. Pretend to be a girl.
HUCK: Runaway slave?
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HUCK: A girl?!
JIM: Go on, Huck.
HUCK: (putting on sheet) But how do I pretend?
JIM: Talk in a high voice and walk like a girl.
HUCK: (he does so) You mean like this?
JIM: Almost. Keep trying.
HUCK: (in a girl's voice) Good evening. Beautiful weather this evening. (In his own voice).
This is ridiculous.
JIM: No it's not. That's good, Huck, really good.
HUCK: Alright. I'll be back in an hour.
WOMAN: That's right. This slave ran away the very night a young boy called
HuckleberryFinn was murdered. He killed the poor child and then ran off.
HUCK: No!
WOMAN: Oh yes. There's a four hundred dollar reward.
What did you say your name was again?
HUCK: Uh, Mary...Mary Williams.
WOMAN: You said Sarah when you came in.
HUCK: Sarah Mary Williams.
WOMAN: What's your real name. Bill or Tom or Bob?
HUCK: Please don't make fun of a poor girl like me...
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WOMAN: Girl? Look at your sewing. You're not a girl. You're a boy, aren't you?
HUCK: Yes ma'am.
WOMAN: I thought so, Now tell me your real name.
HUCK: (to audience) Well, I told her a few more lies and she went into the kitchen to
make some food, I ran out of the door and back to the river. Jim! Jim!
JIM: I'm here.
HUCK: Quickly, Jim. We've got to get going! We pushed the raft out into the river and
jumped on board as fast as we could. When we were a few miles away Jim asked me
what had happened.
JIM: So we have gone past Cairo?
Huck: That's right.
JIM: But how?
HUCK: We must have missed it in the fog.
JIM: How are we going to get back? We can't row against the stream on a raft.
HUCK: I don't know Jim. I just don't know. (to audience) Things were pretty bad.
The further South we went, the more dangerous it was for Jim.
JIM: (song)
MAN 2: His made your teeth fall out.
HUCK: (to Man 2) They were chasing you too. What did you do?
MAN 2: I don't know.
MAN 1: I do. He was reading the Bible at church meetings and collecting money for
missionary work.
HUCK: But that's a good thing to do.
MAN 1: Not if you spend toe money on getting drunk!
MAN 2: Tell me, is your friend here a runaway slave?
HUCK: Runaway slave? No, of course not. Jim is… is my servant.
We are going to visit my uncle in New Orleans, aren't we, Jim?
JIM: That's right, Master Huck.
MAN 1: Where's your father, boy?
JIM: He was with us, but a steamboat ran over the front of the raft and he was
drowned. We travel at night because people always think Jim is a runaway and
they try to take him away from me.
MAN 2: That's a sad story. (he sighs) Nearly as sad as my own.
HUCK: What is it?
MAN 2: Well, I don't know how to tell you this. (he starts to cry)
Scene 6
HUCK: What?
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HUCK: Early next morning, we were just hiding the raft when two men came
running out of the bushes.
MAN 1: Quick boy, help us. Get this raft going as fast as you can.
MAN 2: Hurry, they're right behind us!
HUCK: I could hear voices shouting and the sound of dogs barking quite close by,
so Jim and I pushed the raft away from the river bank. Then we floated out into
midstream.
MAN 1: Thank you, boy, thank you.
HUCK: Why were those people chasing you?
MAN 1: No reason. No reason at all.
MAN 2: He was selling toothpaste.
HUCK: Toothpaste? What's wrong with selling toothpaste?
MAN 2: The secret of my birth.
HUCK: What do you mean?
MAN 2: I am really a Duke.
HUCK & JIM: A Duke?
MAN 2: That's right. I was stolen as a baby and brought up by poor people,
but I am the true Duke of Bridgewater.
HUCK: Wow!
MAN 2: You should bow when you speak to me and call me "Your Grace".
HUCK: Is this really true?
MAN 2: I give you my word.
HUCK: (bowing) Well if it's really true, can I get you anything, Your Grace?
HUCK FINN
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DUKE: Just something to eat.
Man 1 begins to cry loudly.
HUCK: What is it?
MAN I: I can't stop myself from crying to think of my own sad story.
HUCK: What is it?
MAN 1: I have also got a secret. I know you won't believe me, but I am really a King.
DUKE: A King!!!
MAN I: That's what I said, a King. My father was King of France. He came to Kentucky
on holiday with me, his baby son. But he died of a fever and his wicked brother took
the throne. My nurse brought me up as her own child and told me the story when I
grew up.
HUCK: That's terrible.
KING: I know. You see really you should lie on the floor and kiss my feet and call me
“Your Majesty".
HUCK: Are you really sure you're a King?
KING: You see this ring? This is the royal crest of France.
HUCK: (bowing and kissing his feet) Your Majesty. (to audience) I didn't really think that
they were a Duke and a King, I was just pretending. I knew that it wasn't going to be
easy to get rid of them both, so I decided to keep them happy while I thought of a plan.
HUCK: (to Jim, whispering) I'll find a way to get back to the raft tonight.
Wait here for meand keep out of sight.
JIM: I'll be waiting.
HUCK: I went into town with the King and put up lots of posters for their show. Then
the Duke came and got a big crowd of people together. They made me go around
collecting money for the tickets. They told the people that they were famous actors, all
the way from London, England. They didn't let me out of their sights, all day long. The
Duke hired a big hall and then he and the King put on their costumes. At seven o'clock,
a huge crowd was sitting in the theatre. They were ready to perform.
The Duke and King enter. They are wearing tights and armour and carrying swords. The
costumes look as though they have been made out of cardboard.
DUKE: My lords, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our theatre.
Tonight, for one night only we present to you Shakespeare's King Richard the Third.
KING: To be or not to be that is the question.
DUKE: Get thee to a nunnery go!
KING: (draws his sword) Once more into the breach dear friends, once more!
They fight. The King kills the Duke by stabbing him under the arm.
DUKE: Thus die I. Now I am dead, now am I fled. My soul is in the sky.
So, die, die, die, die,die.
KING: Oh, I am fortune's fool. (stabs himself and dies)
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JIM: (whispering) How are we going to get away from those two?
HUCK: I'm not sure. I reckon if we go ashore tomorrow morning we'll be able to lose
them. (to audience) The next day, we stopped near a small town, but the Duke and the
King were too clever to go into town on their own.
KING: Come on, Huckleberry. You come along with me. We have got work to do.
KING: Yes, my boy, we have a show to perform.
HUCK: A show?
DUKE: Acting in plays is a good way to make money.
We will perform a Shakespeare play.
HUCK: Shakespeare?
KING: King Richard the Third, by William Shakespeare. The best tragedy in the world.
You will collect the money.
HUCK: (to audience) It was the shortest show I'd ever seen and I couldn't understand a
word of it. Anyway, I ran back to the raft while the Duke and the King tried to stop the
crowd from taking their money back. (shouts) Jim! Jim! Hurry, let's go! (silence) I called
for Jim for half an hour but I couldn't find him anywhere.
The King and Duke run in.
KING: Let's get going, quick!
HUCK: Where's Jim?
KING: Forget about him, let's get going.
HUCK: I'm not going without him.
KING: Don't be an idiot.
HUCK: Where is he?
DUKE: Sold.
HUCK FINN
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HUCK: You sold Jim?
DUKE: Don't get so angry! He was only a runaway slave.
We didn't believe your stupid story. You can always get another.
KING: We got eight dollars, you can have your share. Now, come on!
HUCK: Where is he?
DUKE: A farm over that way. The farmer is going to advertise up river. When he finds
out who he belongs to he'll claim the reward. Come on, get this raft going.
There are people coming after us.
HUCK: You can do it yourself.
DUKE: We can't sail this thing.
HUCK: (to audience) I could hardly believe my luck. She thought I was Tom Sawyer, and
that meant that Tom was on his way. He would know how to rescue Jim. I waited by
the road the next day and at three in the afternoon I saw my old friend walking along
the road. (to Tom) Tom!
TOM: Aaaaagh!
HUCK: It's me, Huckleberry Finn.
TOM: Keep away! Keep away from me!
HUCK: It's all right, Tom. I'm real.
TOM: Huck?
HUCK: Look, I'm real, I'm alive.
TOM: Are you sure?
Scene 7
HUCK: Of course I'm sure.
HUCK: You'll have to. (to audience) I jumped off the raft and I ran and ran as fast as I
TOM: But how did you...?
could. I had to rescue Jim. I got to the farm where Jim was, but I didn't know what to
HUCK: I'll tell you later. First we have to rescue Jim.
say. I knocked on the door and a woman opened it.
TOM: Jim the slave?
WOMAN: (kisses him) Come in! Come in! You're here at last, thank goodness for that.
I was worried you'd got lost.
HUCK: Your Aunt Sally got him locked in a shed on her farm. I know it's wrong Tom,
but I’m gonna help him to get free.
HUCK: Huh?
TOM: Fine.
HUCK FINN
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WOMAN: Come and sit down by the fire and tell me everything. Tell me all about your
mother and the whole family. How are they all?
HUCK: Er ...
WOMAN: You poor thing! You must be hungry. Let me get you something nice to eat.
Everyone will be so pleased to see their dear Cousin Tom. Why are you so late? Did you
have any trouble on the boat?
HUCK: Yes, Ma'am.
WOMAN: You don't have to call me ma'am. It's Aunt Sally to you.
I'm so glad you're here, my dear little Tom Sawyer.
HUCK: Tom Sawyer?
WOMAN: That is who you are, isn't it?
HUCK: Of course it is. The family are all fine; Uncle Silas, Aunt May, everybody.
AUNT SALLY: Good, good. Now, let's get you some food.
HUCK: You don't think it's a bad thing to do?
TOM: No.
HUCK: Tom told his Aunt Sally that he was his brother Sid Sawyer.
That night we climbed out of our bedroom window and went to find Jim in the shed,
at the end of the garden.
JIM: Huck Finn!
HUCK: Hi, Jim. How are you?
JIM: Not too bad, Huck.
TOM: Are there any rats in here?
JIM: No.
TOM: We’d better get you some. Prisoners always have to have rats.
JIM: But I hate rats.
HUCK FINN
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TOM: And spiders.
HUCK: What are you going to do?
JIM: Spiders?
TOM: Don't you ever read anything? We'll have to bring you a file, baked in cake,
so that you can file your chains down.
JIM: But I ain’t got no chains, just this here rope, around my hands.
AUNT SALLY: I have called on every man in the town. They are all coming here tonight
with their guns to wait for this gang in the orchard. Don't go outside tonight, Tom or
you and Sidcould be shot, by accident.
HUCK: Yes, Aunt Sally.
TOM: No chains? What sort of prison is this? This is all going to be too easy.
JIM: I want it to be easy! I wanna get out of here.
TOM: No, no, no. A prison has to be impossible to escape from.Where are the guards?
JIM: There ain't any.
Scene 8
(to audience) That night, Tom and I crept out of our beds and down to the shed. We
had dug a hole under the wall at the back. We crawled in and pulled Jim out with us.
But, as we ran towards the river, I tripped tripping on a log and made a loud noise.
TOM: No guards?
VOICES: What was that? There they are. Shoot them!
JIM: No.
There is the sound of loud gunfire
TOM: Right. We will have to write a letter to your Aunt, Huck.
TOM: Aggh. Huck, Jim, help me!
HUCK FINN
HUCK: A letter?
TOM: Warning her that dangerous criminals will try to set Jim free tomorrow night.
HUCK: But then people will be waiting for us. People with guns.
TOM: That's right. We'll be famous and Jim will be free.
HUCK: Couldn't we just cut his ropes now and let him go tonight?
TOM: Of course not.
HUCK: But why not?
TOM: It just wouldn't be right. Good night Jim. We'll be back tomorrow night.
Come on Huck.
HUCK: Tom and I wrote to Aunt Sally. Then we got everything ready to rescue Jim.
AUNT SALLY: Tom! Tom!
HUCK: Yes, Aunt Sally.
AUNT SALLY: Look at this.
HUCK: What is it?
AUNT SALLY: It's a letter. "Dear Lady, we are going to free your runaway slave tonight."
HUCK: Who is it from?
HUCK: Tom had been shot in the leg. By the time we got to the raft it was bleeding
badly. The King and the Duke had gone but Tom was too badly injured to move,
so we lay him on the river bank.
HUCK: What are we going to do?
JIM: I'll get the bullet out, you get a doctor.
HUCK: But Jim, if you wait here you'll be caught again.
JIM: Just do as I tell you or Tom will die. Go on!
HUCK: Well, I ran for a doctor and Jim looked after Tom.
The doctor said Jim saved Tom's life, but Jim was caught and locked up again.
This time they did put chains on him. Tom was out cold for a couple of days and Aunt
Sally sat by his bed the whole time. Early on Sunday, Tom opened his eyes.
TOM: Aunt Sally.
AUNT SALLY: Sid.
TOM: It's Tom.
AUNT SALLY: Shh! You're just confused, Tom is over there.
TOM: That's Huck. Huckleberry Finn.
HUCK FINN
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AUNT SALLY: What are you saying?
AUNT SALLY: It's signed, "with best wishes from a gang of dangerous criminals" 21

TOM: I'm saying that I am Tom Sawyer and that is my friend, Huck Finn.
Did you tell Aunt Sally how we set Jim free?
AUNT SALLY: Jim?
TOM: The runaway slave. Did he tell you how we wrote that letter from the gang
of criminals and how we dug a tunnel to get Jim out?
AUNT SALLY: No, he did not. Now, get some rest. (to Huck)
You have got a lot of explaining to do, young man.
TOM: It doesn't really matter. Anyway, at least Jim is free.
AUNT SALLY: He is not. He's locked up in the shed.
TOM: (to Huck) But why didn't Jim get away?
HUCK: He stayed to look after you.
AUNT SALLY: He saved your life. I feel bad that he's locked up again, but a slave
is a slave. He belongs to someone else. There's nothing I can do about that.
HUCK: I guess I'll have to go back to my father, now.
JIM: No you won't, Huck.
HUCK: What do you mean?
JIM: You remember that house we saw floating in the river?
The one with a dead body in it?
HUCK: Yeah.
JIM: The body was your father. He's dead, Huck.
HUCK: It was a bit of a shock to bear he was dead, but I wasn’t really sorry.
Tom, Jim and I caught the steam boat together and went back up the river to Hannibal.
My adventure was over but my life had only just begun.
SONG: Great Day.
THE END
HUCK FINN
TOM: But he can't be locked up. He's free.
AUNT SALLY: Free? What do you mean?
TOM: Jim is free. Miss Watson, Jim's owner, felt guilty for trying to sell him down
South, so she set him free in her will. She died last week, so Jim IS FREE.
AUNT SALLY: Well, my goodness me!
HUCK: Why didn't you tell me?
TOM: And lose the chance to rescue him from prison?
HUCK: Jim was free from the shed and Tom got much better. Soon, it was time for us
all to go back up the river. Tom gave Jim 400 dollars for being such a good prisoner
and for letting us rescue him from prison when he was already free.
JIM: Well Huck. I guess you know what I'm going to do with this 400 dollars.
HUCK: Yes, Jim, I guess I do. Buy the freedom of your wife and kids.
JIM: That's right. Thanks, Huck.
HUCK: Thank you, Jim.
JIM: What for?
HUCK: For waiting with Tom, and for being my friend.
HUCK FINN
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They shake hands.
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